Acts 7:1
And the chief priest said: Are these things so?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 26:61and said: This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
John 18:19Then the chief priest questioned Jesus concerning his disciples and his teaching.
Acts 6:13And they brought forward false witnesses, who said: This man ceases not to speak words against this holy place, and the law.
Matthew Henry on Acts 7:1
When our Lord Jesus called his apostles out to be employed in services and sufferings for him, he told them that yet the last should be first, and the first last, which was remarkably fulfilled in St. Stephen and St. Paul, who were both of them late converts, in comparison of the apostles, and yet got the start of them both in services and sufferings; for God, in conferring honours and favours, often crosses hands. In this chapter we have the martyrdom of Stephen, the first martyr of the Christian church, who led… Read the whole commentary →